Text Cleaner
Text Cleaner — runs in your browser. Inputs are not stored.
Clean text
Enter values, then press Calculate.
How to use
- Paste content to clean into Text. The original box stays as-is; the result appears below.
- Turn on the options you need. Defaults are trim each line, collapse consecutive spaces, and remove empty lines.
- Turn on CRLF → LF only when you want to change Windows line breaks.
- Press Clean to show original character count, result character count, and cleaned text.
- Copy to take it; you can change options and clean again. Reset clears input.
Key concepts
Text cleaner is for stripping leftover spaces and empty lines from Excel-pasted lists, email bodies, and logs. It trims per line, collapses consecutive spaces and tabs to one, and empty-line removal drops only lines with no content. Mid-sentence line breaks stay if the line has content. Use it to trim leftover spaces from pasted address books, logs, and CSV-like text and reduce character count.
It does not remove duplicate lines. If the same line repeats, use the separate remove-duplicate-lines tool. Invisible characters (ZWSP and similar) are also out of scope here. Large files run only within browser memory limits, and the original is not sent to a server. Separate original and result boxes let you change options and clean again. Invisible characters and duplicate lines belong to other tools.
Example
Paste two lines with leading spaces and an empty line between them, clean with defaults, and leading/trailing spaces and the empty line go away with a smaller character count. A cell of many tabs becomes one space with the consecutive-space option. CRLF → LF turns Windows line breaks into Unix LF. Three lines with a leading tab and an empty line between them, cleaned with defaults, drop the empty line and show a smaller character-count stat.
Related: Remove duplicate lines · Invisible character remover
Frequently asked questions
Does text cleaner also turn tabs into spaces?
The consecutive-space option collapses consecutive spaces and tabs to one. It does not expand a tab to four spaces; it only compresses runs.
Does empty-line removal also delete mid-sentence line breaks?
Only lines with no content are removed. Line breaks on lines that have characters stay. Empty-line removal can also drop lines that contain only spaces if they count as empty.
Is duplicate-line removal included in text cleaner?
No. Use the separate remove-duplicate-lines tool. Chaining that tool after this one finishes list cleanup.
Can large logs be cleaned in the browser?
It runs within browser memory limits. If it is too large, paste in chunks. Multi-megabyte logs can stutter the browser, so split them.
Can I undo a clean result?
The original box above stays, so change options and clean again. The original is not deleted, so you can rerun if you turned an option off by mistake.
Does CRLF to LF match Mac and Linux editors?
Yes. Only LF remains. Check it against your Git settings. LF also helps reduce ^M marks in Git diffs.
Last reviewed: 2026-09-04